Programme

All talks will take place in Room B3.03 in the Zeeman (Mathematics) building.

10:00 - 12:00 Registration
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch - Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:00 - 14:50 Claudio Landim (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro): The evolution among ground states in the ergodic time scale
15:00 - 15:50 Milton Jara (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro): Abrupt thermalisation and profile cut-off for randomly perturbed dynamical systems
16:00 - 16:40 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:40 - 17:30 Robert Jack (Bath): Large deviations, metastability, and effective interactions (slides)
18:30 - Dinner - Mathematics Institute Common Room

9:30 - 10:20 Cristina Toninelli (Paris 6-7): Kinetically constrained spin models: some results and open issues
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
10:50 - 11:40 Alessandra Faggionato (La Sapienza): Metastable features in the d-dimensional East model
11:50 - 12:40 Oriane Blondel (Lyon): A random walk on the East model (slides)
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch - Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:00 - 14:50 Aaron Smith (Ottawa): Mixing Time of a Kinetically Constrained Process in High Dimensions at Low Density
15:00 - 15:50 Martin Slowik (TU Berlin): Metastability in stochastic dynamics: Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequality via two-scale decomposition (slides)
16:00 - 16:40 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:40 - 17:30 Eial Teomy (Tel Aviv): Relation between structure and dynamics in kinetically-constrained models.
18:30 - Dinner - Mathematics Institute Common Room

9:30 - 10:20 Juan P. Garrahan (Nottingham): Ideas about quantum metastability (slides)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
10:50 - 11:40 Peter Sollich (King's College London): Driven dynamics of trap models (slides)
11:50 - 12:40 Takahiro Nemoto (Paris VII): Universal finite-size scaling for a dynamical phase transition in a kinetically constrained model and a quantum phase transition in a ferromagnet. (slides)
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch - Mathematics Institute Common Room
19:00 Conference Dinner at Clarendon Arms, Kenilworth

9:30 - 10:20 Johel Beltran (PUCP, Lima): Nucleation phase of condensing zero range process (slides)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
10:50 - 11:40 Ines Armendariz (Buenos Aires): Zero Range Process with superlinear rates.
11:50 - 12:40 Michalis Loulakis (Athens): Metastability in a condensing zero-range process in the thermodynamic limit (slides)
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch - Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:00 - 14:50 Sander Dommers (Bochum): Metastability in the reversible inclusion process (slides)
15:00 - 15:50 Alessandra Bianchi (Padova): Metastability in the reversible inclusion process II: Toward the characterization of the relaxation time (slides)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:30 - 17:20 Elisabetta Scoppola (Roma Tre): Biking to equilibrium with Probabilistic Cellular Automata
18:30 - Dinner - Mathematics Institute Common Room

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee break - Mathematics Institute Common Room
10:00 - 10:50 Emilio Cirillo (La Sapienza): Exit time in presence of multiple metastable states (slides)
11:00 - 11:50 Francesca Nardi (Eindhoven): Metastability for General Dynamics with Rare Transitions: Escape Time and Critical Configurations.
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch